1The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.[ † ]Acts 2:16
2Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?[ † ]Jeremiah 30:7Joel 2:2 3Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.[ † ]Exodus 10:2Psalms 78:4Isaiah 38:19
4That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:38Joel 2:25Amos 4:9Isaiah 33:4
5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.[ † ]Isaiah 5:11Isaiah 28:1Hosea 7:5Isaiah 32:10 6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.[ † ]Proverbs 30:25Joel 2:2-11, 25Revelation 9:8 7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.[ † ]Isaiah 5:6Amos 4:9
8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.[ † ]Isaiah 22:12Proverbs 2:17Jeremiah 3:4 9The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord ; the priests, the Lord 's ministers, mourn.[ † ]Hosea 9:4Joel 1:13Joel 2:14Joel 2:17 10The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.[ † ]Jeremiah 12:11Hosea 3:4Isaiah 24:7 11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.[ † ]Jeremiah 14:3-4Amos 5:16
12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.[ † ]Joel 1:10Habakkuk 3:17Isaiah 16:10Isaiah 24:11Jeremiah 48:33
13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.[ † ]Jeremiah 4:8Ezekiel 7:18 14Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord ,[ † ]2 Chronicles 20:3Joel 2:15-16Leviticus 23:362 Chronicles 20:13 15Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.[ † ]Isaiah 13:9Jeremiah 30:7Amos 5:16Isaiah 13:6Ezekiel 7:2-12 16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea , joy and gladness from the house of our God?[ † ]Isaiah 3:1Amos 4:6Deuteronomy 12:7Psalms 43:4 17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. 18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.[ † ]1 Kings 8:5Jeremiah 12:4Jeremiah 14:5-6Hosea 4:3 19O Lord , to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.[ † ]Psalms 50:15Micah 7:7Jeremiah 9:10Amos 7:4 20The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.[ † ]Job 38:41Psalms 104:21Psalms 147:9Joel 1:181 Kings 17:71 Kings 18:5